12 September 2019 1:39 pm WAT
By
danivert
Fifty people have died in a train accident in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country’s minister for humanitarian affairs said on Thursday
.
The train derailed around 3:00 a.m. (0200 GMT) in the province of Tanganyika, in the south-east of the central African nation.
Several people also suffered injuries.
The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.
“Speaking for the government, I present my condolences to the families affected,” the minister said on Twitter. (dpa/NAN)
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